The EMNES policy workshop at CEPS finished successful on 14.07.18 after 5 days of ongoing sessions focusing on the policy roadmap of the Network. Lectures by external speakers offered an overview of the EU policy priorities, vis-vis the Med region. Among the speakers were:

The lectures were combined with group activities that extrapolated policy insight from the research developed in EMNES. Every day EMNES researchers covered all policy areas and addressed 1 of the 4 steps of the programme:

EMNES research inputs: Presentation of selected research contributions focusing on the policy issue

“In line with this assessment of the complex dynamics of intertwined integration and disintegration characterising the region, Ayadi and Sessa (2013) devised a number of alternative scenarios that could play out in Euro-Mediterranean relations at the Horizon 2030, two of which were particularly interesting in light of the above discussion on diversity. In the pessimistic scenario, labelled “red transition”, the Mediterranean Sea becomes a dividing line between diverse but conflicting civilisations, leading to deeper political uncertainties and mounting economic and social difficulties, as tensions escalate between, but also within, the two shores, linked by the effects of contagion covering a number of issues, without being able to resort to cooperation. In the optimistic scenario, labelled “blue transition”, the Euro-Mediterranean region experiences an increasing heterogeneity where the active contribution of people, civil society and policy makers, as well as synergetic policies are built on existing areas of agreement between distinct yet related countries.”